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Fuentes Earns the AAHHE Mildred García Founders' Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

David Fuentes Fuentes is associate dean in the College of Education at William Paterson University, where he began his career in higher education as an assistant professor of teacher education in 2012. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, values such as cultural appreciation and equity-minded decision-making often elude officers who interact daily with people from diverse backgrounds. Some officers believed the police academy fell short by not delivering a community history curriculum related to their eventual field assignments.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education. The school went co-educational in 2012, but its concern for women remains.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. Dr. Joyce E.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Watford says.

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This entails being anti-racist, equity-minded, and culturally responsive, as we have written about in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and several other scholarly outlets. CURRICULUM - The content and focus of counseling sessions must be anti-racist and culturally responsive to be useful for minoritized students.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males. Recommendations for Nurturing the Brilliance of Black Males Ensure that Black male voices are centered in conversations on academic and college support (Harper, 2012). Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g.,